title: [Basic dimensions of work design: new inputs to functional flexibility].
abstract: Although a lot of research has been developed during the last century in the field of human work design, the results seem to be unsatisfactory. Nowadays, there is renewed interest in this field but it is not producing any new results. This is the main reason why, in our investigation, we have tried to determine the real variables that truly affect the human work design. We have carried out two empirical researches involving 660 and 310 companies, obtaining from both exactly the same results, four factors that confirm the conclusions reached in previous research: demand-adaptation, flexibility-polyvalence, improvement-autonomy and conciliation-participation. We can add that these factors are independent from the environment and the type of technology used by the companies, which does not occur if the size of the enterprise is taken into account.
authors.affiliation: Facultad de Psicología, Universidad Autónoma de Madrid, Madrid, Spain. mf.rios@uam.es
authors.forename: Manuel
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Fernández Ríos
authors.forename: Rafael
authors.initials: R
authors.lastname: San Martín Castellanos
authors.forename: Jesús María
authors.initials: JM
authors.lastname: de Miguel Calvo
mesh_terms: D004651:Employment; D006801:Humans; D015279:Organizational Culture; D011795:Surveys and Questionnaires